Well, well, well. Once again a musicvideo, that could be directly out of the head of an arcade game-designer. Still waiting for more people doing it the other way round: putting music into arcade-games. Music by Maps, video by Rob Chandler. (via)

Experimental storytelling Sunday! Air Pirates is a game by Cactus, he made with his studio Lo-Fi Minds for e4. It is flash and it will be released next month. The trailer indeed convices by blocky and dirty style, ill colored pixels and music from The Death Set.

A short, but interesting platformer experiment is “Sad Torino Girly Harry” from beef and cow. It was made for the “Poppenkast 3 hours astronaut” competition. Aim was to make a space-game in 3 hours and mention the cast. The game is as confusing as its name – experimental in nature and really worth 3 minutes of playing fun! Get the game here.
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A nice tool for creating font-graphics, derived from classic arcade games is the NFG Arcade Font Maker. You can select from a loooong list of classic-games, from Boulder Dash to Fantasy Zone, Tetris or Wonder Boy. Than you can type in your desired text, and – viola! – magic happens. You can save the text and use it as you wish. (via)

Today I found really extraordinary footage on the YouTube account from an artist called Wendy Dunham. It is colorful and slightly cheesy synth-pop stuff, but presented an strange fashion. Before we give it a go, please watch this video firts about an extreme strange architectonical artifact: the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea.

Interesting, indeed. Now we continue with strange stuff. At least I like all this colors, feedbacks and symmetry stuff.
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Torley made a great review on an old game for the Mac called Cosmic Osmo. Although this game is from 1989 and only features black, white and some grayscale colors, it looks outstanding interesting. The game is a point and click adventure, and got some pretty nice humor. The soundeffects are great as well. You best simply take a look at the video-review from Torley.

Fathom is an absolutely lovely made free flash game, ready to play in your browser. The game is a little bit diffrent from others – read here if you get stuck. It’s made by Adam “Atomic” Saltsman and Danny “B” Baranowsky. They also teamed up at the game Gravity Hook for example.

At least interesting is, that the game took only 10 days to develop, utilizing a self-made flash-framework for 2D-games, called Flixel. It should have some not-so-obvious algorithmic wonders behind the curtain (as you obviously can experience at Fathom) and should see the first public release soon!